Petar Gracanin

Petar Gracanin (22 June 1923-27 June 2004) was President of SR Serbia from 14 December 1987 to 20 March 1989, succeeding Ivan Stambolic and preceding Slobodan Milosevic.

Biography
Petar Gracanin was born in Jagodina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1923, and he served in the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II. After the war, the rose in the ranks of the Yugoslav People's Army, and he became a Major-General in 1970, Lieutenant-General in 1974, and Colonel-General in 1978. From 1982 to 1985, he served as the Chief of the General Staff from 1982 to 1985, as President of SR Serbia from 1987 to 1989, and as Federal Secretary of the Interior from 1989 to 1991. In 1999, he was promoted to reserve General of the Army by President Slobodan Milosevic, and he died in 2004.